All property claims barred by divorce or adultery
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Moore v. Philip Morris Companies, Inc. (1993)
Most recently applied in Griffin v. Rice (September 2012)
Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Absolute divorce bars all claim of either husband or wife to the property, real and personal, of the other after his or her decease.
(2) If either spouse voluntarily leaves the other and lives in adultery, the offending party forfeits all right and interest in and to the property and estate of the other, unless they afterward become reconciled and live together as husband and wife.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.